Towards a comparative history of coalfield societies / edited by Stefan Berger, Andy Croll, Norman LaPorte.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berger, Stefan.

Croll, Andy, 1948-

Laporte, Norman.

Series:

Studies in labour history (Ashgate (Firm))

Studies in labour history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coal miners--Cross-cultural studies.

Coal miners.

Coal miners--Labor unions.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

vi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2005]

Contents:

So many cases but so little comparison : problems of comparing mineworkers / Andrew Taylor

Two faces of king coal : the impact of historiographical traditions on comparative history in the Ruhr and South Wales / Stefan Berger and Neil Evans

The myth of the radical miner / Dick Geary

Cameras in the coalfields : photographs as evidence for comparative coalfield history / Janet Wells Green

A mining film without a disaster is like a western without a shoot-out : representations of coal mining communities in feature films / Bert Hogenkamp

Modernity or "slaves of the lamp"? : independence and control in two state coal mining communities in Victoria, Australia / Meredith Fletcher

A comparison between the Richmond coal basin and Pennsylvania's anthracite fields : slave labour, free labour and the political economy / Sean Patrick Adams

Nigerian coal miners, protest and gender, 1914-1949 : the Iva Valley mining community / Carolyn A. Brown

Everyone black? : ethnic, class and gender identities at street level in a Belgian mining town, 1930-1950 / Leen Beyers

Outsiders : trade union responses to Polish and Italian coal miners in two British coalfields / Stephen Catteral and Keith Gildart

The struggle for Polish autonomy and the question of integration in the Ruhr and Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1880-1914 / Brian McCook

Networking among Welsh coal miners in nineteenth-century America / Ronald L. Lewis

Gender and ethnicity in Japan's Chikuho coalfield / W. Donald Smith

Coal mining, foreign workers and mine safety : steps towards European integration, 1946-1985 / René Leboutte

A moral economy, an isolated mass and paternalized migrants : Transvaal Colliery strikes, 1925-49 / Peter Alexander

Trade union development in the Ruhr and South Wales, 1890-1914 / Leighton James

Coalfield leaders, trade unionism and communist politics : exploring Arthur Horner and Abe Moffat / John McIlroy and Alan Campbell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754637778

OCLC:

55615960